[Freedos-devel] Problem with EMM386

2005-12-09 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. I've been having a problem with EMM386 where I always get the message 'UMBs unavailable!' even when using the option X=TEST or I=TEST. Those are the only options that I am giving EMM386. One thing I noticed differently, though, was that this seems to happen only when I've booted kernel.sys d

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
David O'Shea wrote: ... No. FreeDOS doesn't splits HMA to blocks with headers, similar to MCB in conventional memory. Could we maybe store a char or word in HMA which is at a standardized location which we can read if we know we're running FreeDOS? I'm not sure what MS-DOS does in this r

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Дек-2005 13:33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >> Fnd what this char shoukd show? "And what this char should show?" BB> Nothing, just a marker for where buffers would start (until top of HMA). First at all, buffers may be not

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Arkady V.Belousov schreef: Fnd what this char shoukd show? Nothing, just a marker for where buffers would start (until top of HMA). Strangely MEM /A does mention "11KB" free in HMA, but to my knowledge the kernel fills remaining HMA space entirely with buffers if DOS=HIGH. Bernd ---

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Дек-2005 22:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David O'Shea) wrote to : >> No. FreeDOS doesn't splits HMA to blocks with headers, similar to MCB >> in conventional memory. DO> Could we maybe store a char or word in HMA which is at a standardized DO> location which we can read if we know we're runni

Re: [Freedos-devel] MEM - any changes made in my absence?

2005-12-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
David O'Shea schreef: Hi Bernd, Eric, all, Were any of the bugs I created/propagated resolved while I was away or were any other changes made? I want to get back to fixing bugs but want to make sure I'm working with the latest sources. Nothing changed. Items to do: -the "files=" has non-NLS

[Freedos-devel] MEM - any changes made in my absence?

2005-12-09 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Bernd, Eric, all, Were any of the bugs I created/propagated resolved while I was away or were any other changes made? I want to get back to fixing bugs but want to make sure I'm working with the latest sources. Thanks! David --- This SF.ne

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-09 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Arkady, > From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 15:38:43 +0300 (MSK) > >> This is not strange, because 29 buffers fit to remains of HMA, > DO> Anyone know if there's a way that MEM can check what the kernel is storing > DO> in HMA, specifically with regard